24 Ocak 2011 Pazartesi

Catchy Choice Hotels Commercial from Half a World Away

Do you find Choice Hotels' country-song commercial as catchy as I do? "I've Been Everywhere" popularized by Hank Snow and then Johnny Cash, it is a rapid-fire vocal list of places all over the country. To me, it is way better than most jingles. Turns out that the original song was written in Australia more than half a century ago, according to Wikipedia. One Geoff Mack wrote it in 1959 with names of Australian towns, and it was recorded by an Aussie singer named Lucky Starr (real name, Leslie Morrison). First it was a down-under hit, and then it became a hit in the US in 1962 too, when Hank Snow retooled it with American places. Johnny Cash's 1996 release was a hit again a generation later. The Wikipedia entry includes various verions released with different place names around the globe. Click here for a YouTube video featuring Johnny Cash's recording. I keep intending to figure out how many places are in the song and how many I've been to -- not a lot, really.

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